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LAST week saw the launch onto the market of two of southern England’s most beautiful and historic small country estates, each one set in an idyllic location at either end of the South Downs National Park and restored to its former glory by dedicated owners. Crispin Holborow of Savills Private Office (07967 555511) quotes a guide price of £13.5 million for illustrious, Grade II*-listed Shawford Park, set in 59 acres of formal and informal gardens, parkland and woodland between two branches of the River Itchen, a mile from the village of Twyford and four miles south of Winchester.
A plantation of more than 2,000 trees has resulted in a proliferation of natural life
Following the Restoration in 1660, Sir Henry Mildmay, who supported Parliament in), he eventually pulled the old house down, replacing it at vast expense with Shawford Park House, which was completed in 1687.
